The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-07-02
FARM AND FlREs,Ds.


The best seeds and implements pay
best.
Farmers must look for their profit
in reduced cost rather than higher
prices.
AN Iowa farmer gives as his expo
rience that an exclusive diet Of corn il
the cause of hog cholera.
-Primroses will hold their flowers
longer if set in shady window after
they are in flower.-Homc and Farm.
Under like conditions young AMI.
mails make greater gain, in proportion
to food eaten, than those fully matured.
Cranberry Jelly: One quart cram
berries, one pint sugar, one cup water.
Cook ten minutes and strain Yankee
Blade.
"A horse is never SO gentle but that
he should be watched carefully. A
most ungentle animal is the gentle horse
when thoroughly frightened.
Sponge Cake: One cupful sugar;
three eggs. well beaten; three table
spoonfuls cold water; one cupful flour;
one teaspoonful baking powder, mixed
with -four, and pinch of salt.--Toledo
Blade.
The more rapidly air is brought
into contact with cider the faster the
latter will be changed to vinegar.
Draw out little cider daily and return
it to the barrel, if for vinegar.-St
Louis Republican,.
Beauty the home ana thus beau
tify the childhood of your sons and
daughters. Train them to help you in
your tasks. Divide with them the toll,
and they will double the pleasures OF
your home. Cincinnati Times.
"A Vermont owner of ''sugar
BUSH states that last November he
tapped his maple trees to test the quail
ity Of the sap flowing at that time, and
found it to contain one and. one-half
per cent. of sugar against three or
three and one-half per cent. in spring.
The flavor of fall-made sugar he says
is most exquisite, and its maple taste
perfect. &c Christian at Work.
1t has been claimed for years that
rats first introduced the terrible trichni@
in swine and then, through fresh pork
and bacon, into human bodies. DIR.
Landrey. in the Popular Science NeUs,
supports this theory with personal OBJ
servations, and cites number of cases
showing that dead rats, mice and cats
should be kept away from hogs. 1t is a
crime to throw dead rat to the hogs
with such facts in mind.--San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Corn Biscuit: Scald two cups Of
corn meal in one pint of sweet milk.
Then stir together three-q dlrters of a
cup Of butter, two cups Of sugar and a
little salt, and add to it. Then add
three eggs well beaten. a little flour and
half cup of hop yeast Let it rise the
second time; then roll out and let rise
the third time. Bake and send to the
table hot. This amount makes about
twenty fine biscuits. -Mother's Maya
zine.
Feeding Work Horses: In my ex.
perience of about thirty years in feed
ing work horses no i'll effects have arisen
from feeding corn meal ground as fine
as burr millstones can properly do it,
when mixed with cut hay or straw.
have had eases of collie, but it was al.
ways traced to carelessness of the feeder
and violation of orders in not mixing
the meal with cut hay. ] have fed
horses upon various concentrated grains
ground into fine meal, from four years
old to twenty, and they were always in
good health when the rule of mixing
fine meal with cut hay or straw was
strictly adhered to. Montreal Witness,